[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 46, Issue 22

[Jon Phillips]

agree, IANAL :)

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 06:01 -0800, John Olsen wrote:
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:22:48 +0200
> > From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro>
> > Subject: [Clipart] pacman baddies
> > To: clipart-list <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> > Message-ID: <47A09648.8020307 at nicubunu.ro>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> >
> > I have a new project, a [small] collection of PacMan baddies (will
> > probably upload them next week, maybe I will draw some more in the
> > meantime, see a preview at http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/pacman.png)  
> > but I
> > got a question about policy.
> >
> > The Pac-Man name belong to Namco, so I think is better to avoid using
> > "pacman" in the name filed, but I believe it is also fair so say  
> > inside
> > the description field something along the lines of "this is inspired
> > from the Pacman game". I do not want to remove *all* references.
> >
> > What other people think?
> 
> 
> I think "inspired by" is a good idea.  I don't think referring to a  
> trademarked or copyright image in itself is a violation.
> 
> John
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